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 |  You are what you write. Illusion and Reality...I reside in between. Where are you? |
UNDERSTAND THAT REDIRECTING CIVILIZATION is a major undertaking. You can write volumes about it and who will listen? But the energy that goes for that purpose cannot be withdrawn. You know that.  |
Prompt: You are struck by lightning and now have a new talent. What is your new talent? I didn’t die, so I guess the talent is being alive and happy about it! Or one could wish to be twenty years younger, or in my case maybe fifty years younger. Ha! I’m happy with the talent I have. I’ve put it to good use over the years, so keep your gifts. Peace and love...>>>iggy  ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable **  |
Blog City Prompt: The smoke seen in the dream now rises. Hawaiian Proverb See what you can do with this. Pua a'e la ka uwahi o ka moe. The Hawaiians believe that when a body sleeps, the soul slips out through the tear duct to roam in a body of wind. They can travel great distances and have adventures. Dreams are important, Dreams have meaning, Enter their world with an open heart, Self is not lost, self is enhanced. Sleep into blue deepness, Find the eye and source of tears, The water flows with sadness, The water flows with joy. Choose to be one floating Teardrop filled with knowing, Emerge to the warm air of breath Escape the hardness of self. Glide free on the wind, Embrace the rolling dream-scape, Soar higher in the wind, Become one with the wind, After living many years in Hawaii, I know about the magic and mysticism. It is powerful and beautiful. Do not betray it! Peace and love...>>>iggy |
Blog City Prompt: In his book, titled Consolations, David Whyte says, “Heartbreak is how we mature.” What does heartbreak mean to you? Do you agree with the author that heartbreak is necessary for us to mature? It means overwhelming distress, sorrow or grief. I believe that people who are not exposed to death and dying are more prone to extreme heartbreak if they suddenly lose a loved one. The children of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine learn at a very young age that survival is more important than any distress. Their young faces reflect a deep knowing and understanding about death and what it means. If that is maturing, it certainly happens. I see children, even here in Belize, who work for their family. Seven-eight years old, they come on the busses before they leave, to sell trinkets, food, drinks. They handle money like adults and quickly size up a potential target. If that is maturing, it certainly happens. When adults lose a child, they are heartbroken. But that has little to do with maturing. It’s just a deeper form of sorrow. The loss is never forgotten and most times the person is hardened. Some become withdrawn. If such a terrible state of emotion could be avoided, I believe we would have a gentler, kinder world. Being brokenhearted because your girlfriend or boyfriend dumped you does not compare, but it will make you a bit wiser about relationships. Also, I see the consumption of alcohol and drugs as enhancers of heartbroken behavior and barriers to any progress towards maturity. The heartbreak level of our world is way too high. Think about that! Peace...>>>iggy ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
Blog City Prompt: On the first page of her new novel, The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah says, “In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.” Agree or disagree? Yes, I agree, but I think it is more complicated than that about love. Some people pretend to be who the other person would like them to be---a mask that is not truthful. Maybe deep down the person would like to be that wonderful and good, but the truth eventually comes out. Then if the person realizes they cannot be who they want to be, the love is a very cruel experience. There are layers and levels different for every person and situation. Great characters to write about! The war realization of who we are is very ugly and unfortunately most people ignore or deny the reality of it. In the Western Media the details are simply filtered out or omitted, so we have generations that truly do not know who they are. Who are we? To find out requires a lot of research, persistence and discernment. Every citizen should know everything in order to understand what is happening---what has really happened. The recorded history is a very strange collection of truths, misinformation and propaganda. Remember the victors write the history. Beware what you read or hear or view. Consider the source---and even that requires research. Enormous amounts of money and time (and lives) are invested in protecting and securing what you don’t or shouldn’t know. That is the illusion we all live in. Someday it will all burst out in some kind of disclosure IF ENOUGH PEOPLE KEEP PICKING AT THE EDGES. Reality has hard edges, you know. Peace and love...>>>iggy ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
Blog City Prompt: Do you think food tastes differently when you eat it outside? Why or Why not? What are some of the tastiest foods you've enjoyed outside? I remember in the 1940’s, my mother and aunts on family outings up on Casper Mountain, cooking fried chicken over campfires. The chicken came from our back yard as well as the tomatoes and corn on the cob. My aunt make potato salad with all fresh, home made ingredients. Asparagus, watermelon, onions, beans, peas, all came from everyone's gardens. My aunt brought fresh butter, creme and milk and eggs. Another aunt brought fresh rolls she’d baked that morning. Then that was followed up with apple pie and a couple cakes. The smell of the pines and high mountain air with the home made food, I shall never forget. They used heavy iron pots and skillets. Dishes and containers were all made of glass or ceramic. No clear wrap or foil. Pots were tied up with fabric and towels. What a different world we lived in. What do you eat now? >>>iggy ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
Blog City Prompt: Many different people have very unique sneezes. Which one of your friends has the loudest and most boisterous sneeze? Think about that friend for a minute, would you say that sneeze fits with his or her personality? Why or Why not? How would you describe your own sneeze? I get just a tiny chill and it makes me sneeze. Once, then two times then a series of at least twenty sneezes. One about every 15-20 seconds. This leaves me with a dripping nose and distracted for about twenty minutes. Happens almost every day. Long ago I used to have hay fever, but no longer. My sneezes are loud and explosive. After everything settles down again, I feel fine. Definitely my head is clearer. Ha! We took the sailboat out this morning. And we have the doldrums Very low wind after the monsoon storm a day ago. Got the sails up and roared forward at a speed of 1-knot, About 1 mph. High overcast is still with us and humidity is about 90+%. Came bacf after about an hour of not going anywhere. Speed boats do roar as they past us. Used the electric engine to get back to the marina. Had lunch and a very long nap. Doldrums are good for napping. Peace...>>>iggy ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
We had a major thunder, lightening, rain storm last night, the first of the season. Very big, covered most of the Yucatan, Belize and Guatemala. Monsoon drifted down from the arm of the sea,, Mixed with continent-sized clouds of smoke Burning cane, sugar sweet and fiery, With the night the first lightening stroke. West wind faded as north dominated, Came the rain in a vicious shower, The roar on the roof never abated, The tropical storm is the deluge’s power. The air washed clean of sugar cane ash, Fine dirt has mixed on rain-soaked floor, Mud stains spot on every window sash, Monsoon’s over but we brace for more. (abab form) Difficult to flow. I think aabb is much easier. Struggling with poetry...>>>iggy ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
Blog City Prompt: When the moon is full, your personality changes. What is your personality like? I work in mental health and this happens! I live in the huge stone house on the highest hill in the county, visible from all three of the little villages that clustered near the base of the rocky prominence. I’m sure my ancestors built the monstrosity up there to intimidate, plus the circuitous route that wanders once all the way around the hill, lined with an imposing stone façade on the uphill side of the road, topped with carved, snarling wolf heads every twenty yards. This had been definitely designed to impress anyone who would approach the estate. A bit of a cliché? I’d say it was a very calculated one, but several centuries out of date in the 2000’s. These days, with the right candlelight inside, and a low-angled full moon on the exterior, it manages to be downright romantic. As for the snarling stone animals that dominate the walls, the balustrades, and high arched entrances; a forward-thinking great uncle planted climbing roses everywhere to soften the effect. I find it quite pleasing, besides the fragrance that pervades on a warm summer evening. Most romantic. After all, the place is called “Wolfstone, and it only should be visited on a night of the full moon. Oh yeah...>>>iggy ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
Blog City Prompt: Ann Patchett says, “I never learned how to take the beautiful thing in my imagination and put it on paper without feeling I killed it along the way. I did, however, learn how to weather the death, and I learned how to forgive myself for it.” Do you agree with her or is the process different for you? Imagination is the seed of an idea. For a writer, his/her words bring the creation of their mind into a two-dimensional reality on paper or a screen. The exact detail or closeness to the imagined thing might not be the same, or beyond their ability to express it fully. But the truth of this concept is that imagination within out mind is terribly fluid and transitory. It can change and alter itself in an instant of logical thinking. IT’S JUST A STARTING POINT! You can write ten versions of the imagined thing and still change your mind. It sounds to me that Ann Patchett is afraid of her own mind? As a writer of speculative fiction, I love the absolute freedom of using imagination to create characters in worlds that are pure invention. The rules can be close to the real world or completely different and upside down. There are no rules about rules! Writing is a kind of adventure. It should be enjoyable and satisfying, not a grieving process for what you couldn’t write. Write on...>>>iggy ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
Blog City Prompt: Let’s put on our editor’s hats and help someone who has handed in his novel’s manuscript. Even before the middle, you find out that the central problem is extremely weak, so weak that it doesn’t even make sense (to you) for the writer to have written as much as he has. In which ways would you assist this writer, or else, what would you say to him? Hey Melonie, I received your manuscript, HOW TO CREATE A SUCCESSFUL GARDEN FANTASY, Budge Secrets For the Beginner. I must compliment you on the cover photograph. The setting with the pastel rabbits in the background are a delight for the imagination. Your ideas in the forward for the book are creative and could be quite practical. However, I have found some serious problems within the content of the first four chapters. I know your intention is that any garden fantasy project be a total success, but your suggested series of steps are not believable or justified. Most beginners to this new industry would have a very difficult time trying to follow your suggestions. For instance, Step-3: How to manipulate the budget. Item One: Bumping Up the Budget Committee. You have suggested that cash bribes and gifts of new cell phones to committee chairmen will excite them to allow payment for those $200,000 setting and location requirements. This is essentially bribery and that is illegal, especially for corporate foundations. The consequences of some of your Essential Steps, could result in very expensive lawsuits against Fantasy Planners. I am returning your manuscript with regret. Our company cannot condone nor accept any of your material. We must demand that you cease and desist all promotions that state our company is already planning to publish your book. We have never considered publishing your manuscript, and will never in the future. It is our friendly suggestion that you consider a different profession than writing. Wishing you the best for that endeavor. Very sincerely, John Smith, Chief Editor. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Peace and Love...>>>iggy |
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